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corporatism
noun
cor·po·rat·ism
Ë?kȯr-p(É™-)rÉ™-ËŒti-zÉ™m
: the organization of a society into industrial and professional corporations serving as organs of political representation and exercising control over persons and activities within their jurisdiction
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Twenty-five years after her own stint in the field, Leigh Claire La Berge has mixed those spirits of ambiguity and corporatism into a wry, bracing cocktail.
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Longreads, 30 Aug. 2024
The failure of the third arrow means continued corporatism, and the preservation of Japan’s social model even at the cost of a slow slide into economic backwardness.
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Noah Smith, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2013
Then again, the corporatism has high costs as well.
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Noah Smith, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2013
The end of corporatism would amount to the wholesale destruction of Japan’s social model.
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Noah Smith, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2013
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First Known Use
1935, in the meaning defined above
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“Corporatism.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/corporatism. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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